Ice-cutting machine



2 Sheets-Sheet 1 (NoModeL) A. O. OHAPLIN. IOE CUTTING MACHINE.

No. 271,220. Patented Jan.30,188 3.

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(No Model.) 2 Sheets-Sheet 2. A. O. OHAPLIN.

1GB OUTTING MACHINE. No. 271,220, Patented Jan. 30,1883

Uin'rrEnv STATES PATENT Urrrca.

ALONZO (J. GHAPLIN, OF CAPE ELIZABETH, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO l). W. CLARK & 00., OF PORTLAND, MAINE.

ICE-CUTTING MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 271,2.20, dated January 30, 1883.

Application filed September 2, 1882. (No model.)

To (all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALONZO O. GHAPLIN, of Cape Elizabeth, in the county of Cumberland and State of Maine, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Ice-Outting Machines; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, which will enable others skilled in the artto which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

Figure 1 is a top plan. view, showing the cutters. view, showing the ribber. Fig. 4. is a side elevation. Fig. 5 is a detail, showing the ribber andcutters in part section on the line wof Fig. 1.

Same letters show like parts.

My invention relates to machines for cutting off snow, slush, and useless portions from icecakes before packing them into ice-houses, and for ribbing the cakes, so that they will notfreeze together when so packed.

My invention consists in the combination of an icc-carryin g frame or frames set on endless bands or chains with a gaged or adjustable cutting-frame and its cutters, operated as herein set forth, and of the combination of a set of ribhcrs with said ice-carrying frame and gaged frame, as herein set forth.

a shows a slip such as are usually made, leadingfrom the ice-field up into the packing-house. b is the cutter-carrying frame. It is V-shaped, as shown in the drawings. It is placed between four uprights, c, and parallel with the slip a, as seen in Fig. 4. It is suspended from the lever 6, attached to the center of the crane f, rising from and attached to the frame in the manner seen in Fig. 1. It is held in balance, so as to be easily worked, by the cords and weights g, running over pulleys in the posts 0. It is raised or depressed by the lever 2. Each side of the V-shaped frame b is furnished with the cutter g, bolted to the frame I), as shown in the drawings. The inner edge of the frame I) is beveled, as shown, to receive the V- shaped cutters g. The wide end of the frame I) and the cutters g are nearest to the lower end of the slip d, and the ice, as it is drawn up the slip, is first received at such wide lower Fig. 2 is an end Fig. 3 is an end' end. The frame I) is secured to a cross-head, it, at the upper end by the clamps 2'. A crossbar, 9', at the lower end makes the frame strong and firm.

. and can thus be handled easily and without breaking.

The cutters g are arranged on a bevel, as seen in the drawings, and bolted to the beam 1), which is beveled to receive the said cutters. Two beams, o, BXieIld-Oll0 on each side of the slip-from the icefield to the door'of the house on the inclined slip. They are rabbeted at l to allow the endless chain at to pass easily up in and along them. At certain distances along the endless chains are attached the cross-bars at, extending across from one chain to the other, attached to the chains and moved as they are moved. These bars constitute boxes or places in which to hold the blocks of ice and draw them up into the house and under the action of the cutters g.

Strips 0 on the bottom of the slip, and extending longitudinally of it, furnish the tracks on which the cakes of ice slide as they are moved up into the house. i

p are studs to hold the cutter-carrying frame .at any point of elevation above the slip, so that the ice can be evenly shaved or out. There is one of these projecting from each of the posts or uprights c. A number of holes in these uprights allow of the pins being placed at different heights above the slip, and of their holding the frame I) at such elevation. If a cake of ice come up the slip turned up edgewise, then the lever 6 can be employed to raise the frame I) and allow the cake to pass under, and the frame I) can be immediately lowered again. The ribbers are attached, as-seen in Fig. 5, at 7.". Thus cakes of uniform thickness, relieved of slush and other matter, and ribbed as described, can be delivered to the ioepacking house with ease and rapidity.

The movement of the chains m can be produced by an engine or any well-known means. 2. The combination of the ribbers 7c, frame The metal plates g serve to steady-the cutters, b, crane f, lever e, cross-head h and cross-bars and aid in carryingofi' the matter cut from the n, and chain m, as herein set forth. j tops of the ice-cakes. In testimony that Iclaim the foregoing as my WhatIclaim as my invention, and desire to own I affix my signature in presence of two 15 secure by Letters Patent of the United States, witnesses.

is-- ALONZO O. OHAPLIN. 1. The combination of the frame b, cutters g, Witnesses: uprights a, crane f, lever e, chains m, and cross- WILLIAM HENRY CLIFFORD,

to bars n, as herein set forth. J. P. KERRIGAN. 

